<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Speedy Claxton, whom Hawks coach Mike Woodson calls "the missing piece," will return to practice today. The 5-foot-11 guard fractured the third metacarpal bone in his left hand on Sept. 18. His doctor's release comes five weeks and a day after the injury. Woodson said Claxton, the team's key offseason free-agent acquisition, will play Friday against Charlotte in the final preseason game of the season at Chapel Hill, N.C. "I won't burn him out," Woodson said, "but we'll give him some minutes and I'll let him kind of tell me where he is when he's out there. We'll try to get him going before we actually make our trip to Philly [for the season opener on Nov. 1]."</div> Source